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Fluorescent Mineral Photo Gallery

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Daylight Fluorescent Hyalite Opal, Zacatecas, Mexico

Colorless to greenish, transparent, glassy bubbles of hyalite opal (Opal-AN) covering an unknown brown/grey colored matrix, from Electric...

Danburite from Charcas, San Luis Potosi, Mexico

Danburite is a calcium borosilicate mineral that is sometimes cut as a gemstone. Like many minerals, when found in its pure form it is...

Red Fluorescent Fluorite - Mexico

At Tucson 2017 I had my deathray longwave LED flashlight (as did one other fellow). We came across a vendor selling Mapami fluorite...

Smithsonite, El Refugio mine, Choix, Sinaloa, Mexico

The El Refugio mine, located in Choix, in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, is a notable source of beautiful specimens of the zinc carbonate...

Adamite, Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Durango, Mexico

This is an interesting specimen of adamite from the Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Durango, Mexico. As is the case with many fluorescent minerals,...

Hemimorphite, Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico

Light-colored crystals of hemimorphite on a red/brown limonitic gossan matrix, collected from the Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Durango, Mexico. ...

Snowball Geode from Trancas, Chihuahua, Mexico

Geodes are great fun. They're much better than Easter Eggs during an egg hunt, and this one was found during such an escapade. Momma...

Red Phantoms in Mariposa (Butterfly) Calcite from Santa Eulalia, Mexico

(English version) This specimen could be classified as an “common Mariposa Calcite” from Mexico (Buena Tierra Mine, Santra Eulalia). And...

Coral-Like Formation of Aragonite, from Mexico

This is a bright white, branching coral-like formation of pristine aragonite that shows a beautiful multi-wave fluorescent response under...

A dramatic example of zoned fluorescence in apatite - David Mosiah claim, Cerro Huañaquino, Potosí D

A dramatic example of zoned fluorescence in apatite, very characteristic of the material from the David Mosiah claim, Cerro Huañaquino,...

Apatite from Llallagua, Bustillos Prov, Potosi Dept, Bolivia

Spent a bit of kale on this one - apatite from Llallagua, Bustillos Prov, Potosi Dept, Bolivia. In MW and white light. Same color under...

Selenite, Baja California, Mexico

This is a cluster of white, bladed, intergrown crystals of selenite from an interesting location in Baja California, Mexico. Located at...

Radiating Calcite Crystals, Irai, Rio Grande Do Sul, Brazil

A radiating cluster of translucent gray-white calcite crystals aesthetically perched on a dark matrix, from Irai, Rio Grande Do Sul,...

Hyalite Opal Geode from Mexico

This is a hollow, rhyolitic, geode nodule half containing a botryoidal, bubbly mass of colorless hyalite opal and small quartz flowers,...

Aragonite - Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico

This is a large (25cm x 15cm x 15 xm) coralloid formation of Aragonite from Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico. I don't know if coralloid...

Escherlike crystals of Adamite

This is a nice little gemmy Adamite from the Ojuela Mine, Mapami, Durango, Mexico. It is pretty small (4.2 cm x 3.1 cm x 1.6 cm, 28.3...

Manganocalcite, Huaron Mine, Peru

This is a unique mixed-mineral specimen, that due to its manganocalcite content, is of interest as a fluorescent specimen. It consists...

Rare Red Fluorescent Fluorite, Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico

A small percentage of purple fluorite from the Ojuela Mine in Mapimi, Durango, Mexico, shows a beautiful, rich, red fluorescence under UV....

Cuprian-powellite (powellite-Cu)

Cuprian powellite: Jardinera No. 1 Mine, Inca de Oro, Chañaral Province, Atacama Region, Chile. The yellow fluorescence of powellite,...

Caracolite

This specimen came from one of the mines near Caracoles, Antofagasta Region, Antofagasta Province, Sierra Gorda District, Caracoles,...